Las Vegas gunman kills 2 at law firm before committing suicide

Published: 08 April 2024 at 21:17

Crime

A gunman opened fire inside a law firm near the Red Rock resort in Las Vegas, killing a man and a woman before turning the gun on himself. The incident took place on the 5th floor of the law firm. Police are still investigating the motive behind the shooting. Schools in the area were briefly placed on lockdown but have since reopened. Police confirmed that there is no ongoing threat to the community and are in the early stages of the investigation.

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Las Vegas attorney and wife shot dead at law office

Las Vegas attorney Dennis Prince and his wife Ashley were shot dead during a deposition at their law office by another attorney, Joseph Houston, who then took his own life. The shooting occurred in relation to a custody case involving Ashley and Houston's son. Dennis Prince, recognized as one of the best trial lawyers in Nevada, had tried over 100 cases to jury verdict. The shooting resulted in the death of three individuals, with no ongoing threat to the public. The motive for the shooting is still under investigation.

2017 Las Vegas shooting (Wikipedia)

On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay hotel. He fired more than 1,000 rounds, killing 60 people and wounding at least 413. The ensuing panic brought the total number of injured to approximately 867. About an hour later, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The motive for the shooting is officially undetermined.The incident is the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in American history. It focused attention on firearms laws in the U.S., particularly with regard to bump stocks, which Paddock used to fire shots in rapid succession, at a rate similar to that of automatic firearms. Bump stocks were banned by the U.S. Justice Department in December 2018, but the constitutionality of the ban remained under review until 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, leaving the ban in place.